单词 | pemmicanize |
释义 | pemmicanizev. Chiefly literary. Now rare. transitive. To condense, compress; esp. to make concise, reduce to a digest or summary. Cf. pemmican v. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > put concisely or briefly [verb (transitive)] > condense condensate1555 contract1604 to shut up1622 compress1746 condense1805 pemmican1837 pemmicanize1845 to boil down1880 bovrilize1900 1845 Hood's Mag. June 610 His endeavour was to pemmicanise ideas, as the North-pole explorers did provisions, that they might be carried about the easier. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 Sept. 3/2 The modern man is but rarely inclined to read his history in many volumes. He much prefers it pemmicanized. 1927 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 47 130 This translation of the shorter German edition of 1924 will be serviceable to those who are not intimidated by the idea of pemmicanising the glory of Greece and the grandeur of Rome. 1935 Punch 22 May 602/1 If Les Misérables is to be pemmicanised, I think I prefer Bret Harte's condensed version to Joseph M. Schenk's. Derivatives ˌpemmicaniˈzation n. rare ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [noun] > concentration or condensation compaction1398 compacting1561 condensation1603 coaction1625 concentration1865 pemmicanization1901 1901 Westm. Gaz. 16 Dec. 4/2 What one may call the era of the Pemmicanisation of life is rapidly approaching. ˈpemmicanized adj. ΚΠ a1919 B. F. Cummings Let. in A. J. Cummings Last Diary (1920) p. xxvi My journal is..a study in the nude, with no appeal to the highly pemmicanised intellect. 1947 PMLA 62 1015 For his German readers this loosening-up of Hartley's rigidly pemmicanized argument may have been helpful. 1991 T. J. Saunders Plato's Penal Code ii. 85 A highly pemmicanized history of Greek, or at any rate Athenian, law would run as follows. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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